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Andrew Marble, “Boy on the Bridge: The Story of John Shalikashvili’s Remarkable Success” (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
Andrew Marble
Boy on the Bridge
The Story of John Shalikashvili’s Remarkable Success
University Press of Kentucky, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 21, 2020 Mark Klobas

When President Bill Clinton nominated John Shalikashvili to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993, it represented the climax of a long journey that began in waning days of the Second World War. In Boy on the Bridge: The Story of John Shalikashvili’s Remarkable Success (University... Read More
Graham T. Clews, “Churchill’s Phoney War: A Study in Folly and Frustration” (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Graham T. Clews
Churchill’s Phoney War
A Study in Folly and Frustration
Naval Institute Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 13, 2020 Charles Coutinho

Given the overwhelming amount of books printed in the past ten years on various (usually rather obscure) aspects of Sir Winston Churchill’s glorious career, it is of great interest that so little has been written about his activity during the Phoney War phase of the Second World War (1 September... Read More
David Head, “A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution” (Pegasus Books, 2019)
David Head
A Crisis of Peace
George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution
Pegasus Books, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 30, 2019 Mark Klobas

In March 1783, George Washington confronted a meeting of disgruntled Continental Army officers at their encampment at Newburgh, New York. In his book A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution (Pegasus Books, 2019), David Head explains the background to this meeting... Read More
Reider Payne, “War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Reider Payne
War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era
Sir Charles Stewart, Castlereagh and the Balance of Power in Europe
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New Books in BiographyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 26, 2019 Mark Klobas

Though Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh remains well known today for his role in shaping the post-Napoleonic peace settlement in Europe, his half-brother Sir Charles Stewart has received far less attention despite his own prominent part in the politics and diplomacy of those years. In War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic... Read More
Matthew Lockwood, “To Begin The World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe” (Yale UP, 2019)
Matthew Lockwood
To Begin The World Over Again
How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network December 20, 2019 Zeb Larson

Growing up as an American, you’re bound to be all-but-suffused with triumphalist histories of the American Revolution. Those histories might have a tough of the Hegelian to them, asserting that the Revolutionary War was part of the inevitable development of freedom worldwide. More academic histories have focused more critically on... Read More
Thomas Kühne, “The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Thomas Kühne
The Rise and Fall of Comradeship
Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century
Cambridge University Press, 2017

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society December 17, 2019 Michael E. O’Sullivan

In The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Professor Thomas Kühne writes an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars... Read More
Roberto Carmack, “Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire” (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Roberto Carmack
Kazakhstan in World War II
Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire
University Press of Kansas, 2019

New Books in Central Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network December 6, 2019 Nicholas Seay

Roberto Carmack’s Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire (University Press of Kansas, 2019) looks at the experience of the Kazakh Republic during the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War. Using a variety of archival materials, newspapers, and individual memoirs, Carmack looks at important topics of... Read More
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